High resolution clonal architecture of hypomutated Wilms tumours

Published: 19 March 2025| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/k46tg2f683.1
Contributor:
Henry Lee-Six

Description

Mutation calls accompanying the article 'High resolution clonal architecture of hypomutated Wilms tumours' published in Nature Communications in 2025. Please see the article for full details. Abstract: A paradigm of childhood cancers is that they have a low mutation burden, with some ostensibly bearing fewer mutations than the normal tissues from which they derive. We set out to resolve this paradox by examining paediatric renal cancers with exceptionally few mutations using high resolution, high depth sequencing approaches. We find that apparent hypomutation is the result of unusual clonal architecture due to a normal tissue-like mode of tumour evolution, raising the possibility that the mutation burden of some cancers has been systematically misjudged.

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Please see article for full details. Please note that for the pileups, genomic positions have been randomly generated to protect patient confidentiality, as some of the calls will be germline mutations.

Institutions

  • Wellcome Sanger Institute

Categories

Cancer, Wilms Tumor, Pediatric Oncology

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